MEDICINAL VIRTUES OF BRANDY.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4639, 16 November 1883, Page 2

MEDICINAL VIRTUES OF BRANDY.

About the year 1842, a general panacea for all disorders was brandy and salt, then considered a a perfect cure for various ex* ternal and internal complaints. This discovery was made by .a ; Mr Lee, an English gentleman who possessed an estate of 12,000 acres iv France, on which he resided with two gamekeepers, one chap* lain, and eighty domestics. An accidental circumstanceled him to the knowledge of the medical virtures of a solution of six ounces of common culinary salt in one pint of French brandy. Sometimes applied internally and sometimes externally, it removes, the effect of stings of mosquitos, gnats, wasps, bees, and vipers; it cures the head ache, ear ache, and side ache, gout, consumption, scrofula, chilblains,; mortification, and about thirty other disorders. Many extraordinary cures are enumerated, and even the worst complica* tion of diseases yield to the remedy. A lady who was afflicted at the same time with a sore leg, a bad breast, an abcess in her back, another abscess under ber arm, and rheumatism, was cured of these five disorders in the course of six weeks; and another—Captain Plumb—who was. ill all over his body, inside and out, and was near, death, was restored to health in the course ofone month.